The reason it doesn’t work is that 1 is a scalar while i is a vector (with magnitude 1). The Pythagoras theorem works with scalars, not vectors, so you’d get 1^2 +1^2 = 2.

Yeah, I think the far easier explanation is “people around the world depict their religious figures as looking like themselves”.

I hadn’t played in years and started a new world a few weeks ago. I just started setting up a raill system when the update hit and now the whole thing is fucked. Gotta tear up a bunch of diagonal sections and re-do them noe that the new track angles lead to different accessible grid points. I literally cannot connect new rails to the old rails on the diagonal section 🙃

It’s literally a poem in the original language.

This is like, technically a weapon. It’s a tool for destroying enemy missiles in the air before they impact their target. It’s about as purely defensive of a weapon as you can get.

The US soldiers are operating the missile defense system, so there’s not room for Israel to “creatively” repurpose them. They aren’t assisting in any missions in Palestine, they’re purely defending against Iranian missiles.

This definitely seems like the more likely explanation. There certainly is a mental/emotional hell you go through in academia, but with this y-axis being specifically about psychiatric medication… all I’m seeing is that grad students like/need Adderall.

The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

The word itself comes from from the Italian word for “nephew”, because of a trend of “nephews” of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes’ illegitimate sons).

The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. ~~Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever. ~~ eh, that last but might not be accurate but there is some kind of enzyme in their stomach that keeps you alive? Whatever.

The Cuba embargo is entangled so deeply into US law that it is a total cluster fuck pain in the ass to undo. It’s not just one law, it’s an entire web.

We should be going through the pain in the ass to undo it, because the embargo really isn’t doing us any good and it’s keeping Cuba decades behind in development due to a 60 year old grudge. But communism or whatever.

Alaska, Canada, Russia, a few on the -stans.

This is the longest straight-line all-water route on earth.

The short answer: fungus and algae work together and create a multi-organism structure.

The medium answer: [this meme]

The long answer: [years of graduate school]

They also were allied with groups of confederate rednecks with the understanding “we have incredibly different worldviews, but we’re both poor and it’s because of the rich folks in power”

The three-letter-agencies could not allow that kind of class consciousness so they assassinated Fred Hampton.

A device, no. A motherboard? Yup.

IDELAND: Where people go to bitch about visual studio.

$100M of $VT, secure my ultra-comfortable retirement right then and there.

(For anyone curious, the speed of light in earth air is like 99.97% as fast as in vacuum)

I can be a little sympathetic to the argument “this feature is built into our Point of Sale device, we didn’t ask for it”.

But 30/40/50% tip is not the default anywhere, that was done on purpose.

The 250th anniversary of the signing of US declaration of independence will be in 2026.

The state is also requiring a four-paragraph “context statement” about how the commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries”.

Generous rounding, there.

So like, the ad didn’t even say anything about the genocide in Palestine? It just starred a half-Palestinian model?

Because unemployment isn’t really that low. When we talk about “people here now who could use those jobs”, we’re usually talking about people in dead end jobs that could use a career job.

So great, pull them into our elder care system, give them a career level up…now their old jobs are still unfilled. And while we’re super shitty as a country towards entry level service workers, we also as a country really want those jobs to be filled. So we’d need to fill that gap in the employment pool somehow.